Lead Platform Engineer - Infrastructure & Backend

📋 Job Overview

Tripledot Studios is one of the largest independent mobile games companies in the world. We are a multi-award-winning organisation, with a global 2,500+ strong team across 12 studios. Our expanded portfolio includes some of the biggest titles in mobile gaming, collectively reaching top chart positions around the world and engaging over 25 million daily active users. Tripledot’s guiding principle is that when people love what they do, what they do will be loved by others. We’re building a company we’re proud of. One filled with driven, incredibly smart and detail-orientated people, who LOVE making games. Our ambition is to be the most successful games company in the world, and we’re just getting started.

🏢 About Lion Studios

Lion Studios is a mobile games publisher that works with mobile developers to get their games discovered by players around the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lion Studios’ creative and strategy teams utilize their expertise to help game developers break through the noise and grow their businesses. Since launching in 2018, Lion Studios has driven 90% of its games to the Top 10 in the App Store and Google Play and helped drive 16 games to #1 in the US App Store’s Top Free chart.

🎯 The Role

Lion Studios is looking for an Infrastructure & Backend Engineering Lead to own and evolve the technical foundation behind our games, analytics systems, internal products, and web services. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering across AWS, data infrastructure, backend and game services, and web infrastructure. You’ll help set technical direction, lead the team, and work alongside engineers to design, build, and improve the systems that support Lion and our games. We’re looking for someone who can keep critical systems reliable while also looking ahead, identifying opportunities, and driving technical improvements across the organization.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own our AWS infrastructure, architecture, reliability, monitoring, security, and cost optimization.
• Drive infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and operational best practices.
• Design and implement improvements to our cloud infrastructure and shared services.
• Support infrastructure and hosting for internal products, websites, APIs, and other services.
• Own the infrastructure behind our analytics stack, including Snowflake and high-volume game event pipelines.
• Improve the reliability, performance, scalability, and cost of our data infrastructure.
• Work closely with Analytics and BI to evolve the underlying data platform.
• Help design and implement changes as our data and analytics needs grow.
• Own shared backend services, APIs, game servers, and live game infrastructure.
• Design and build backend systems alongside the team.
• Help define architecture and hosting strategies for services used across our games.
• Support studios and internal teams integrating with Lion’s backend systems.
• Build and own the technical roadmap for the team.
• Lead engineers and stay involved in architecture, implementation, code reviews, and solving complex technical problems.
• Proactively identify technical problems and opportunities and drive them forward.
• Turn ambiguous business and technical problems into clear options, recommendations, and execution plans.
• Build strong relationships across Engineering, Analytics, Product, QA, Solutions, and our partner studios.
• Own projects through rollout and beyond, including monitoring, feedback, adoption, and iteration.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
• Strong backend and distributed systems experience.
• Experience with modern data infrastructure and high-volume data pipelines. Snowflake experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and cloud cost management.
• Experience leading engineers and owning technical roadmaps.
• Comfortable working across code, infrastructure, architecture, and production systems.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make decisions across multiple areas of engineering.
• Strong ownership and follow-through from initial idea through launch, measurement, feedback, and iteration.
• Ability to identify opportunities and drive improvements without needing everything to be fully defined upfront.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in mobile gaming, consumer mobile products, AdTech, or another high-scale environment.
• Experience operating live game services or other highly available backend systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka or similar event infrastructure, and modern observability tools.
• Experience with Snowflake optimization and large-scale analytics workloads.
• Experience working with distributed teams and external development studios.

🎁 Benefits

• Time Off: Flexible Discretionary Time Off policy in addition to bank holidays to relax and refresh throughout the year.
• Financial: Generous 401k match, discretionary bonuses, and competitive salaries.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program: Anytime you need it, tap into confidential, caring support with our Employee Assistance Program, always here to lend an ear and a helping hand.
• Continuous Professional Development: Propel your career with continuous opportunities for professional development.
• Family-Friendly Culture: A generous parental leave policy and a supportive, family-friendly culture.
• Regular company events: Yearly on-site events that celebrate our achievements and our team spirit.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Tripledot Studios is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or other legally protected characteristics.